Mesorat%20hashas for Chullin 33:23

הואיל ואיתסר איתסר

is evident; but according to R'Ishmael [the verse is incomprehensible], for was the gazelle or the hart ever permitted to be eaten at all?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For according to R. Ishmael the Israelites in the wilderness were permitted to eat only sacrificial meat, and since the gazelle and the hart were not permitted to be offered as sacrifices, it follows that these animals could never have been eaten. The comparison therefore in the verse is meaningless.');">¹³</span>

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